Voices from Latin America Partners

With more than 60 events, Voices from Latin America includes dance, film, visual arts, and photography at cultural institutions across New York City.

The Americas Society presents a rich and multifaceted series of Latin American music, literature, visual arts, and policy programs as part of Voices from Latin America. Event highlights include concerts that feature jazz, classical, and contemporary music and musicians from Colombia and Mexico; an interdisciplinary literary symposium with poets, writers, and environmentalists examining aesthetic, social, and political issues in eco-literature across Latin America; and a visual arts exhibition, Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space, that features a group of works by German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt.

Ballet Hispanico, the nation's preeminent Latino dance company, transforms the stage of the Apollo Theater into a stylized Latin social dance hall with works that explore passion and community in movement. Three company premieres put a contemporary spin on Cuba's danzón, Argentina's tango, and 1980s Spanish pop. The performance incorporates vibrant live music alongside choreography by Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro, Argentinean legend Alejandro Cervera, and cutting-edge Spanish choreographers Inma García and Meritxell Barberá. Event details will be announced later this summer.

Celebrate México Now is New York City's first—and only—annual festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture. Encompassing cuisine, literature, film, dance, literature, architecture, and music, this year's celebration concludes with a tribute concert to the legendary Chavela Vargas at Carnegie Hall on November 27.

Cinema Tropical's Music + Film Series celebrates Voices from Latin America with screenings at 92YTribeca of representative documentaries that honor the best of Latin American music and its rich diversity and legacy. Question-and-answer sessions with special guests follow each screening, along with live music performances at Cafe 92YTribeca.

The Juilliard School presents performances that explore the influence of Latin American music, including a concert of Brazilian popular music by the Juilliard Jazz Artist Diploma Ensemble and guest drummer Paulo Braga, the New Juilliard Ensemble with conductor Joel Sachs, and a Latin American-inspired program by Ensemble ACJW.

The Keyes Art Projects has coordinated a series of exhibitions, receptions, lectures, and public programs at leading galleries and museums throughout New York City, giving a glimpse into the wealth and diversity of contemporary art in Latin America. Participating galleries include Gallery 151, El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, ACA Galleries, (Art) Amalgamated, and Cecilia de Torres Gallery.

The New York Public Library explores the vitality of Latin American culture with dance, percussion, and poetry events taking place at branches throughout the city. These include Urban Word, bilingual poetry slams that feature performances of student works and those of noted Latin American poets; World Beat and Percussion sessions in which percussion instruments from across the globe mix with spontaneous spoken-word performances; and dance classes led by Annabella Gonzalez, who teaches the characteristics of traditional Mexican ballet.

The Paley Center for Media focuses on the breadth of Latin American culture with three days of film screenings from its collection that dates back to the 1940s. Selections include Visiones: Latino Art and Culture (2003), La Plaza Special: Tania Maria (1985), Flight to Rhythm (1949), Eyewitness: The New Beat (1962), and Camera Three: Gilberto Gil (1971). A special family-themed screening includes selected shorts of musical children's programs from or inspired by Central and South America, including Open a Door, The Backyardigans, and Go Diego Go!

New York City’s celebrated experimental music venue, (Le) Poisson Rouge presents programs that feature some of the more eclectic and innovative Latin America performers. A central part of the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s, Os Mutantes has influenced today's biggest artists, including The Flaming Lips and Beck. The legendary Brazilian psychedelic rock band performs two special concerts.